Hollywood Director 1992

"Link, is it too much trouble to discuss the on-site recording with the parties involved and spend money to do public relations with them?"

"It's not troublesome. A recording is only two or three minutes long, and at most forty audience members' shots will be used. It won't cost much to spend money. When the movie becomes popular in the future, many viewers may actively cooperate with us for publicity in order to get on TV."

"That's an assumption. You're assuming the movie will be a hit and the audience will be willing to cooperate. If it's not a hit, all this work will be for nothing."

Chris Bauer picked up the crystal ornament on his desk and used it as a dumbbell to do bicep curls.

"Don't worry, it won't be for nothing."

After Chris Bauer left, Link continued to read the newspaper.

These newspapers were selected by Liu Xiaoli from dozens of newspapers and magazines, involving Guess Pictures and information about the new movie's screening.

After the new movie's screening, many media outlets mentioned it in their reports, mostly negative news.

The third-rate entertainment tabloid "World News" reported this news on the front page.

It claimed that Link held an internal screening of his new movie yesterday, and many famous Hollywood producers were invited to participate, including Scott Rudin, Richard Nuzak, Robert Shaye, Harvey Weinstein, Fred Olen, and others.

The newspaper's reporter interviewed the famous producer Fred Olen on the spot.

From his mouth, they got the news that Link's new movie was of very poor quality, filmed with a handheld camera, the lens was shaky, like a videotape made by a few-year-old child.

Fred Olen and others said the movie was too bad and they didn't want to waste time, so they left early.

Along with Fred Olen, there were 13 other famous producers who left, they came from Universal Pictures, Carolco Pictures, Regency Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, and others.

These producers supported Fred Olen's view, believing that the level of Link's new movie needs to be improved.

In addition to Fred Olen and the other 14 people who left early, several producers from Walt Disney, including Sarah MacArthur, also left halfway, with serious expressions when they left.

From this, it can also be seen that the screening situation of Link's new movie is not optimistic.

The third-rate tabloid "Los Angeles Chronicle" also mentioned the distribution situation of Link's new movie in today's news.

According to reliable sources, due to the poor movie screening situation, no film company is willing to take over the distribution rights of Link's new movie at a high price, and Link may have to face the road of self-distribution again.

This time, whether Link can continue the box office miracle of "Buried" by self-distributing the movie is still unknown.

In addition to the "Los Angeles Chronicle" and "World News", seven or eight other newspapers also mentioned this matter in today's news, and the reports were mostly negative.

"Link, there are more tabloids that are badmouthing our movie, should we increase our public relations efforts?"

Liu Xiaoli poured a cup of tea and placed it on the desk.

"No need, these reports won't affect our movie for the time being."

The work done by the entertainment industry's large and small media is actually similar to extortion.

After obtaining negative news about a company or public figure, they release the news and ask the company or individual for money to withdraw the manuscript. If they don't give money, they will report the negative news.

And after giving money, the tabloids will not only not stop, but sometimes become even more intensified, treating companies and public figures as masters, repeatedly sucking blood until the companies and public figures are brought down.

Dealing with these media is actually simple, and can be solved through brokerage companies.

The reason is simple.

No matter how many media outlets there are in the United States, 90% of the media that control mainstream public opinion belong to the six major media groups, including Comcast, Disney, AT\u0026T, Paramount, Sony, and Fox.

And the media groups have close cooperation with brokerage companies.

For example, a big-name star under CAA has an improper relationship with a married man, and is chased and beaten in the street by the woman's husband and filmed. After Fox TV got the video recording, it prepared to report it.

After CAA President Michael Ovitz got the news, he directly called Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, the parent company of Fox Television, and asked him to withdraw the news.

Ovitz had introduced Murdoch to a good internist doctor, and the two had a friendship.

The news was therefore not exposed.

However, there are still rumors in Hollywood that the big star seems to be Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman.

Now that Link and Guess Pictures have some negative news, he can also ask WMA brokerage company for help, and WMA's connections in Hollywood can also do it.

However, everything has a price. If you ask WMA for help, if WMA asks him for help afterward, he cannot refuse.

Considering that there is not much negative news currently, and the impact is not significant.

With the ability of Guess Pictures' public relations department, these things can be resolved.

Link also has no plans to request external assistance for the time being. He told the three supervisors not to be affected and to continue to promote the movie according to the original plan.

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Burbank, Los Angeles, "Herald Tribune" editor-in-chief's office.

"Max, you're looking for me."

Old reporter Thomas Miller knocked on the door of editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal's office.

"Thomas, I remember you submitted a detailed investigation report on the 'Connecticut Ghost House Incident' a few weeks ago?"

Editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal put down his pen and asked.

"Yes, you didn't pass my report, and the opinion given was that it was outdated and no one would be interested."

Thomas Miller shrugged.

"Is that report still there?"

"Of course it is, that's a report I wrote after investigating in Connecticut for two weeks, how could I lose it."

"Very good, you reorganize that investigation report, divide it into three to five social news articles, and we will serialize it in the newspaper in the next few days."

"Really? Why do you suddenly want to serialize it in the newspaper again, can I know the reason?"

"You don't need to know why, you just need to know that you will get a considerable bonus this month."

"Haha, great, I like bonuses, I'm going to reorganize the investigation report now."

Thomas Miller happily said goodbye to the editor-in-chief, closed the door, and hummed a song all the way to the cubicle to revise the manuscript.

Ding ling ling ling ~

The phone on the table rang, and Thomas Miller answered the phone.

One mistake, one song, one hair, one inside, one capacity, one is, one see!

The person calling was Al Simmons, an entertainment reporter from the "Los Angeles Times", a young reporter who was crazy about becoming famous. They had drunk a few times at The Edison bar.

"Good morning, Al, what's up?"

"Good morning Thomas, I heard you have a lot of investigation reports on paranormal events, can you share a few, I can buy them for money, how about $50 each?"

"Paranormal events?"

Thomas Miller looked at the investigation report in his hand and suddenly felt that the matter in front of him was a bit 'paranormal'.

A few minutes ago, he was called by the editor-in-chief to rewrite the report on the 'Connecticut Ghost House Incident'. Now Al Simmons suddenly called and asked him to buy this type of manuscript.

There must be a problem here.

"I do have a lot of ghost stories here, but what do you want these things for?"

"This is a task arranged by the higher-ups, asking us to write a few news articles about paranormal events in the next few days. Damn it, I'm an entertainment reporter, not a writer of ghost stories. Where can I find ghost stories at this time? I heard that you have a deep research in this area, and you also have a lot of accumulation, so I called you to ask for help."

"Is that so?"

Thomas Miller stroked his chin, "I'm sorry Al, I'm afraid I can't help you."

"Thomas, don't you have this type of manuscript on hand?"

Al Simmons asked disappointedly.

"Yes, it's just that Charlie and Michael also called me just now to ask for this type of manuscript. I'm afraid these paranormal event reports on hand are not enough to share."

"$100, I'll buy you a drink this weekend, okay, plus a ticket to the Venus Strip Club, Thomas, help me out."

Al Simmons said excitedly.

"emmm, okay, for the sake of friendship, I'll look through my home archives again to see if there are any extra manuscripts, I'll give you the news tomorrow."

"OK, I'll wait for your good news."

"Goodbye Al!"

Hanging up the phone, Thomas Miller smiled smugly and continued to revise the manuscript.

Ding ling ling ling!

Before he could finish revising the manuscript, Charlie Munger, a reporter from the "San Francisco Chronicle", called and made the same request as Al Simmons.

Thomas Miller also declined with the same reason.

Charlie Munger offered to buy his manuscript for $150.

Thomas Miller 'reluctantly' agreed.

Thomas likes to track paranormal events.

It's just that there are not many readers of this type of manuscript, and reporting it will not increase the newspaper's sales, and the newspaper is not very willing to report these news.

Every time the newspaper doesn't have good news to report, it will use this type of manuscript as a filler.

But today is different. Not only did the editor-in-chief take the initiative to find him for manuscripts, but many colleagues in the circle also came to him to buy manuscripts.

He, who was originally sitting on the bench in the newspaper, suddenly became a hot commodity.

According to these anomalies, he guessed that someone might be using these paranormal news for marketing, guiding public opinion, in order to launch a certain product, such as a movie, a horror novel, or the opening of a paranormal museum, etc.

No matter what the reason, this is good news for him. He plans to send out all the manuscripts he has accumulated during this period and exchange them for real benefits.

He also believes that with these paranormal stories in hand, he can attract more people's attention to paranormal events, and maybe he can take the opportunity to become popular.

Thomas Miller looked at the manuscript in his hand, nodded with satisfaction, and got up and walked to the editor-in-chief's office.